Two Flat Whites in conjunction with our friends at Fremantle Press are giving three (3) lucky people the chance to win Emmanuel Mollois’ wonderful new cookbook titled Et Voila!

Emmanuel Mollois has cooked in some of the best restaurants in France and Melbourne and now owns Choux Café in Swanbourne; a small patisserie which was recently crowned ‘best in the west’ by the Sunday Times. He has just released his first cook book titled Et Voila! Chef Emmanuel Mollois will also appear alongside Master Chef Runner up Poh Ling Yeow in her new program Poh’s Kitchen which will air on ABC1 in February 2010.

Emmanuel tells of his new book, “Well, it’s great, easy-to-follow, beautiful pictures from Karin, truly a book everyone should have and use, ha ha! The book takes you through the basics of pastry making and then has recipes for the most popular French pastries. It covers croissants, éclairs, lemon tart, crème brulée, madeleines, and cherry clafoutis plus some of my own creations. To me, there are no ‘secret’ recipes. I want to make my knowledge and the knowledge of the talented chefs who came before me accessible to the home cook”.

Please email your name, postal address and where you heard about the competition to info {at} twoflatwhites(.)com for your chance to win!

Competition closes Sunday, 14th February 2010.

Click here to view our recent interview with Emmanuel Mollois

Two Flat Whites in conjunction with our friends at Fremantle Press are giving three (3) lucky people the chance to win Alice Nelsons’ fantastic new book titled The Last Sky.

Shortlisted for last year’s Vogel Award, this is Alice Nelson’s first novel. Maya and her husband, Joseph, are academics. She is working on Poussin, he, an archaeologist, has just taken a position at Hong Kong University. It is just a few months before the handover of Hong Kong and Joseph has joined his old mentor to research the lost tribes of the Talamakan Desert. He has become obsessed with the work and in the heady days of the changeover their research has become politically charged. For Maya the move to Hong Kong is a chance to finish her dissertation; a chance meeting with an elderly man leads her to the story of a Jewish Russian émigré, Ada Lang, and a strange and tragic love story.

Please email your name, postal address and where you heard about the competition to info {at} twoflatwhites(.)com for your chance to win!

Competition closes Sunday, 31st January 2010.

Click here to view our recent interview with Alice Nelson.

A fantastic new scrapbooking business has hit the online airwaves. Sugar Sweet Scrap was created by two stay at home Mum’s with seven children between them who have a passion for scrapbooking.

Sugar Sweet Scrap offer high quality and very affordable products. They also want to make scrapbooking quicker and easier for everyone from beginners to scrapaholics so they are providing specialised kits. With over 56 kits (and counting) from births, holidays, school sports day, Easter, Christmas, birthdays, the beach, winter and many many more. The kits contain enough patterned paper, co-ordinating cardstock, rub-ons or phrases, stickers/flowers/brads to keep the family busy over the school holidays.

A cost effective way to keep the kids amused and an awesome creative outlet for their imaginations to run wild. So what are you waiting for? Check out Sugar Sweet Scrap here and place your order just in time for the school holidays or a Christmas present with attitude!

Sugar Sweet Scrap; Your memories, your way.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY on Thursday, 3rd December 2009, ten of Sydney’s most important up and coming artists will be taking over the hotel rooms of the iconic Darlo Bar. Kicking out the beds and turning the rooms into an innovative, seven room gallery and performance art space, the artists will bring their visions to life within the actual bedrooms of the hotel, which punters will be free to roam on the night.

The ten artists were hand‐picked by Jesse Willesee, the lauded artist behind May’s seven room installation of art and performance, Paintings in Hotel Rooms, at Darlo bar. Expanding the concept, this time Jesse has handed over the rooms to a group of the most exciting artists on the local scene, each of whom will be competing for the chance to have their art feature on bottles of The Darlo Bar’s THIRSTY ARTIST wine.

The motley crue of artists will cover a wide range of disciplines, including painting and photography, and performance art will feature in several rooms. Sydney’s coolest new musical find, The Whipped Cream Chargers, will also be playing a show on the night. Come into the artist’s private spaces and celebrate their work‐ unlike any exhibition you have ever seen.

Join the seven‐room art party at The Darlo Bar, Darlinghurst, Thursday 3rd December 2009 from 6.30pm. Featuring: Anto, Tara Cook, Enigh Sligh, Kalindy Sparkle, Sam Malloy, Eve Jary, Ben Toupein, Lara Marshall + many more plus a performance from the Whipped Cream Chargers.

‘Tis the season to be jolly, as well as the season of giving, so Design Federation is giving away a designer Christmas tree! With sustainability/eco-friendliness being an important issue these days, the BuroTree is an excellent alternative to having a dead tree in your lounge room. Made from 100% sustainable wood, the BuroTree is flat-packed for efficient transport, can be used every year, and looks pretty cool to boot.

The Rindd Buro Tree was the proud recipient of a Premiers Design award in 2008. Go to Design Federation to enter.

Seen & Heard is a film festival that battles the celluloid ceiling, celebrates the diverse and extraordinary work of women filmmakers and their not-to-be-underestimated diverse and extraordinary audiences. Seen and Heard in 2010, its second year, will follow on from a showcase of questions on class, race, ability/disability, gender and sexuality.Gender equality behind the camera is serious business. Seen & Hear are seeking films of high quality in which women have played significant production roles.

What: Seen & Heard 2010
When: 14th to 17th January 2010
Where: The Red Rattler, 6 Faversham St, Marrickville, Sydney
Contact: lucy {at} seenandheardfilms(.)com

Fashion slaves and glad rag lusters… it’s on again, folks! The social network for style mavens, 2threads.com, is proud to announce that time of year has come around again and the 2009 2threads Australian Fashion Awards is coming to town. Aiming to be bigger and better than last year’s event by collaborating with the best in the business (including us!) to help the up and coming design talent in town launch into recognition. It’s enough to make your oversized sunnies fog up in a fever!

Nominations are open until the 11th of November so click here www.2threads.com/fashionawards/nominations to nominate yourself or talent you know in the following categories:

Best Designer Women’s Fashion
Best Designer Men’s Fashion
Best Designer Swimwear
Best Up and Coming Designer
Best Accessory Designer
Best Footwear Designer
Best Fashion Blog

Get voting because this is one award that honours the voice of the people. Votes count for everything as there is no panel of judges and there are prizes for voters…. so pull that iPhone out of the Gucci bag and start Tweeting the word!

Finalists will be announced November 17th with the winners being announced on the 23rd December, a lovely Christmas treat for the winners and opportunities to fill your own stocking if you have been actively voting.

Our competition for the Coffin Rock movie tickets has now closed. Thank you to everyone that entered we had an overwhelming response. The winners are listed below and your prizes will be sent this week. Thanks again to Jameson PR for your generous support!

P.Matheos – Penshurst, NSW
S. Leong – Randwick, NSW
E. Bakkalis – Dingley Village, VIC
D. Hadiwibawa – Narellan Vale, NSW
J.Emmerson – Putney, NSW
L.Limas – Kardinya, WA
T.Lee – Concord, NSW
S.Southwell – Seaton, SA
R.Sheridan – Port Macquarie, NSW
N.Fenwick – Burney, TAS

Two Flat Whites in conjunction with our friends at Jameson PR are giving ten (10) lucky people the chance to win one of 10 double passes to the new Australian film Coffin Rock which is in cinemas now.

COFFIN ROCK is an intense Australian thriller from the producer of “Wolf Creek”.

Heading the cast are one of Australia’s favourite female actors, multi-award-winning Lisa Chappell (McLeod’s Daughters) and Robert Taylor, a stalwart of Australian and international cinema (The Matrix, Vertical Limit, Ballykiss Angel) The film also features rising star Sam Parsonson (The Pacific, Love My Way). The ensemble cast also includes Terry Camilleri (Knowing, The Truman Show, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures) and Geoff Morrell (Ned Kelly, Oscar & Lucinda, Marking Time).

Drawing inspiration from nail biters such as Fatal Attraction and Cape Fear, COFFIN ROCK is the feature debut of writer/director Rupert Glasson, whose short film Teratoma screened at many international festivals, including Sundance 2004.

Please email your name, postal address and where you heard about the competition to info {at} twoflatwhites(.)com for your chance to win!

Competition closes Sunday, 1st November 2009.